The African people hold White Lions as sacred beings who are humanity’s guardians in times of transformation. Their natural and spiritual homeland is the Timbavati region of South Africa, neighboring the Kruger National Park, where snow-white lions were born into wild, golden prides. Unfortunately, the cubs were captured and bred for financial gain, for zoos, circuses, and as canned hunting trophies. Consequently, the White Lions have been technically extinct in the wild since 1993.

The Global White Lion Protection Trust is changing this. The lions on this page are part of a re-introduction program to a protected area within the Timbavati Region. These lions carry a message for us all. To learn more about the white lions roaming free in their natural habitat, go to: www.whitelions.org or www.whitelionshomeland.org.

Delightful Facts About the White Lions

White lions are not albinos. They have standard, though at times lighter, pigmentation in their eyes, noses and ears. Their whiteness is the result of a rare recessive gene, similar to blue eyes in humans, which could be a relic of ice ages.

In winter, when it does not rain, they become dusty with the brown earth of Africa and resemble tawny lions, although lighter. In spring, when the rains come, it washes off the dust and they turn white again.

One day of freedom for a white lion costs R350, approximately $50. This covers actual predation and veterinary costs, anti-poaching activities, fence maintenance, restocking prey-animals, essential habitat management and the cost of monitoring around the clock.

The Global White Lion Protection Trust has reintroduced a pride of rehabilitated white lions to semi-free-roaming conditions within their greater endemic habitat—the Greater Timbavati region. They are now hunting for themselves and are self-sufficient.

Once white lions have been integrated into the tawny lion populations within their natural distribution range, the natural dynamics of their endemic region, the Greater Timbavati, will be restored.

Please Join Our Prayer Circle

A prayer circle has a quantum effect. Each time one person signs it and offers the prayer, it is as though everyone in the circle is offering the prayer and in that way the effect is magnified. Now more than ever, the lions need our help.

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Adding your name is optional, although we encourage you to fill in your country so that our map can register your support and others can see where the support is coming from. Should you choose to add your name, be assured it will not be shown or used in any way. If you add neither name, or country, please join us in spirit and hold the intention to honor, protect and co-habitat with these majestic beings.

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Map of The World Showing People Who Have Joined The Lion Prayer Circle

We update this map periodically with all new prayer circle submissions.

Prayer
May all lions, including white lions, be free and flourish in their natural habitat.
May all humans respect and love the lions' wild integrity.
May lions, including white lions, always be present on Earth.
May we always acknowledge their beauty and power,
And the stability they create within the web of life.
We honor them and send them love.